Singing, Comedy Routines
Terrace Dance Features Vaudeville
Herb Widmer and his combo plus
top student comedy and singing
will add up to terrace enjoyment
this afternoon, according to Norm
Morrison, promotion chairman of
the Red Cross drive, who will em
cee the program.
A Tri Delt ukelele quintet, Kappa
Sig quartet, music school trio, and
a comedy routine featuring Frank
Rauch and Gay Baldwin will per
form in front of the library. The
program, to benefit the Red Cross
is scheduled for 4 p.m., if dry wea
ther prevails. Dancing will follow.
There will be no admittance fee,
but Kwamas will collect Red Cross
contributions.
A senior in art and architecture,
Herb Widmer has been popular as
a musician on the campus most of
his four years here. The combo has
played for Junior Weekend events
for the last three years. He also
provided music for the last terrace
dance two years ago, held in con
nection with Junior Weekend.
Barbara Henton, Margo Spang
ler, Nancy Starkweather, Beverly
Belle-Isle and Cornelia Hoppe will
make up the Tri Delt quintet. In
the Kappa Sig quartet are Henry
Haight, Reedy Berg, Harry Gester,
and Dick Shirley.
The singing trio from the music
school will be Claire Lewis, Wayne
Sherwood, and Jim McMullen.
Last night Red Cross general
chairman Sally Waller, together
with Donna Mary Brennan, col
lection chairman; Dard Whitney,
co-chairman of off-campus collec
tion and Norm Morrison spoke for
five minutes on the “Mimi and
Bob” radio program.
A booth has been placed in the
Co-op this week for contributions
to the drive. Student speakers have
talked at all living organizations
on Red Cross, also.
House representatives have been
requested to turn in their money
and material to Donna Brennan at
the Theta house before dinner to
day.
Oregon
VOLUME L
Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the
University
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1949
NUMBER 98
Campus Car Owners Suffer
As City Bans Street Parking
No Relief Seen
In Near Future
By UO Officials
A recent ruling of the Eugene
city council to enforce the law
against overnight parking will
greatly affect the UO campus, ac
cording to a report of the police de
partment.
“The ruling stated that there will
be absolutely no exceptions,” stat
ed a department spokesman. “This
will mean that students parking
cars on campus streets overnight
will be liable to fine.”
It is possible for the University
to provide some parking areas,
especially for those living in dor
mitories. However, according to
the director of information, Lyle
Nelson, no action has been taken
by University authorities.
Areas which will be particularly
( inconvenienced by the new regula
tion will be the Millrace, Alder
street, and the “hill,” where many
fraternities and sororities depend
on street parking. Parking at any
time has already been outlawed on
Alder; however, houses have been
able to park their cars on cross
streets heretofore.
The action of the council was
made to relieve present congestion,
and to increase safety on city
streets.
Commenting on the situation,
; Alpha Tau Omega president Bob
Easter said, “I don’t know what
we’ll do with the cars unless we
stack them on the roof.
“We would be glad to comply
with any reasonable ruling of the
council,” Easter continued. “How
ever, this new regulation leaves us
with absolutely no place to park.”
Kappa Sigma is in a slightly bet
ter situation, according to Presi
dent Jack Donald. “We have re
cently graveled an area in front of
our house which will hold about
five cars,” Donald stated, “and
have improved the parking lot in
back. This still leaves us with ex
tra cars—we’re sunk as far as
they’re concerned.”
Pistol Ends Life
Of Oregon Student
Warren Pinner, 19-year-old
freshman in liberal arts, shot
and killed himself Wednesday
evening at his home, 2495 Jeffer
son street.
Pinner’s mother, Mrs. Anne
Yahn, discovered his body when
she entered his room about 5:15.
No reason could be found for his
suicide. He had recently been ill
with pneumonia, but had recov
ered.
Petitions Taken
For Weekend
Marge Peterson and Larry Da
vidson, co-chairmen of the Junior
Weekend picnic, announced that
petitions are now being accepted
for the chairmanships of food, dec
orations and cleanup committees at
| the picnic. Petitions will be turned
in at the Chi Omega house not lat
er than March 9.
Mary Stadelman, in charge of
the sunlight serenade for Junior
Weekend, also announced that pe
titions for chairmanships of pro
grams, decorations, arrangements,
and contacts for the sing will be
accepted at the Tri-Delt house,
with March 9 the deadline.
Junior Prom Makes Money, But—
Financial Outlook Glum For All-Campus Dances;
Similar Trends Evident at Many Other Universities
By Coralie Nelson
“The downward trend of attend
ance at campus dances is not pe
culiar to Oregon,’’ according to
Dick Williams, director of educa
tional activities.
All the campuses he visited re
cently in his tour of student union
buildings were experiencing the
same trend. Many of the union di
rectors Williams interviewed
voiced the thought that there is no
reason for this falling-off of at
tendance and that it can only be
hoped that a turning point will be
reached soon.
A sui’vey of the seven annual
major campus dances during the
past two years shows that every
dance has gone down financially.
Only two—the Homecoming dance
and the Junior Prom—can be de
pended upon to carry a consistently
high budget.
The 1946 Homecoming dance was
a financial success. In 1947 a def
inite decline was indicated, and in
1948 the profit was still lower,
netting a total of $180.
Sophomore Whiskerinos of 1946
and 1947 were reasonably success
ful, but the ’48 Whiskerino was a
financial failure.
The Senior ball is normally a
failure—even when Dick Jurgens’
band provided the music in 1948—
but did not lose as much money in
1948 as was expected.
Military Ball Biggest Flop
In 1948 first post-war Military
ball was the worst financial fail
ure the University has had in danc
es of recent years. Over $700 was
lost on the function, and while the
amount of loss was less this year, it
was still a failure, going $300 “in
the hole.” Nevertheless, one school
in 1948 lost $1800 on its Military
ball.
The Frosh Glee broke even in
(Please turn to page 2)
N. Milstein,
Noted Violinist,
Due Next Week
Violinist Nathan Milstein, who
will play at' McArthur court next
Wednesday, March 9, has other
talents outside the music field.
The man who has appeared no
less than 33 times as soloist with
the New York Philharmonic Sym
phony orchestra has had several
paintings in the first exhibition of
“Art by Musicians.’’
He likes to play ping pong, and
is proud that he once beat Heifetz,
who is called the champion of this
sport among musicians.
Milstein is also an experienced
chess player, is deeply interested
in political and philosophical lit
erature, and likes gin rummy.
When students hear him at 8:15
next Wednesday, they will be lis
tening to a man who has played
for enthusiastic audiences on three
continents, but who “started to
play the violin not because I was
drawn to it, but because my moth
er made me.”
Now he says that he loves music
like he loves his right hand; it is
an actual part of him.
Students will be admitted to the
concert on presentation of their
student body cards.
Campaign for Red Cross
MINSTRELS CANVAS University soliciting contributions for the.
Red Cross. In the picture, from left to right, are Fred Schneider, Tony
Geremia, Marlys Sinclair, Barbara Patterson, Sue Smiley, Sally
Beach, Gordon Marx, and Stan Clark.
Photo by Dick Revenaugh
Frosh Basket 'Bair
Planned After Game
Oregon's Class of '52 will play host at the all-campus Basket
"Ball" tonight after the game in Gerlinger annex.
The dance, which is the only frosh activity scheduled for
this term, is based on the basket ball theme, and is open to all
students.
Surprise entertainment is being planned by the dance en
tertainment committee headed by Bobby Chambers. Music will
be ‘ a la record, with refresh
ments available on the mezzan
ine of the annex.
Tickets for the dance are sell
ing for 50 cents. They may be
purchased either at the door or
through house frosh council repre
sentatives. Campus clothes arc in
order.
Since many OSC students arc ex
pected to be in town for the game,
they will also be invited to the
dance. Decorations will be yellow,
green, black, and orange, with an
eye toward inter-school relations.
If tonight's dance is successful,
the frosh council plans to sponsor
other all-campus events, including
dances and a class picnic spring
term. This is an attempt to reacti
vate the freshman class, which was
left entirely without a function af
ter the cancellation of the tradi
tional "Frosh Glee” earlier this
term.
Committees for the dance, elected
by the new council are Dick Mc
Laughlin, dance; Dick Stout, fi
nance; Tony Geremia, clean-up; and
Bob Funk, publicity. Class officers
John Chaney, Bob Gitner, Shirley
Hillard and Virginia Wright have
also been working in conjunction
with the dance committees.
Opening Night
Play Features
All Male Cast
One of the first amateur pro
ductions of "Command Decision”
will be performed tonight when the
Guild theater curtain goes up at
S on the fourth production of the
cui'rent season. Director of the Wil
liam Wister Haines’ realistic war
drama is by Ottilie T. Seybolt.
The play has an all-male cast
with Dave Ocstreich, Gene
Deutschmann, Bob Croisant, Cliff
James, and Frank Fairly playing
leading roles. Tickets can be pur
chased at the Johnson hall box of
fice any time today from 10-12,
and 1 through curtain time.
The setting, executed by techni
cal director William Schlosser, is
the command headquarters of Gen
eral K. C. Dennis in England. The
play, credited as the first good
war drama of the second world
conflict, deals with the problems
of command.
Release for the play, which was
a smash broadway hit with Paul
Kelly, was just recently given.
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pic
ture with Clark Gable, Walter
Pidgeon, and Van Johnson, will
reach Eugene two days after the
play’s run ends on the campus, giv
ing students and townspeople a
first hand opportunity to compare
the changes made in plays for their
adaptation to the screen.
Other members of the cast in
clude Ken Neal, Earl Taylor, Gor
don Erickson, James Shaffer, Bob
Miller, Ronald Gunseth, Jack
Evans, Bill Wilson, George Dorris,
Bob Chambers, and Wayne Wag
ner, Phil Bcvans, and Bob Nelson.
Ken Neal is assistant director.
«
The Weather
Partly cloudy today and Saturday
with little change in temperature.
Expected high for today is 58 de
grees and low tonight of 38.